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Re: Common Core The Child Of Agenda 21 Mother [Video]
A Palestinian woman in this video (near end of vid) mentioned this 2020 plan:
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=260102.0
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Grassroots Alaska Kills Agenda 21
http://www.activistpost.com/2015/05/grassroots-alaska-kills-agenda-21.html
By Caroline Collins
Solutions Institute is thrilled to announce that the people of the Borough of Kodiak, Alaska have defeated a zoning bill that would have severely restricted property rights and changed the character of their community. Many residents were deeply concerned, but a coalition did not exist. Activism brought these people together, and all who contributed to the bill's defeat are to commended for defending long-standing property rights. SI provided assistance, but the individuals who devoted their time and resources to the cause carried the day for Kodiak.
Local activist Jamie Fagan wrote to us, describing the process that turned the concerned residents into a force that the Borough Council could not conquer. It is a story of ambition and persistence that inspired us to make the video that accompanies this press release. Here it is Jamie's own words:
On or around Nov. of 2013, an awareness that had been building in me for some time reached a critical threshold where I knew I had to do something! It hit me that I could no longer sit on the sidelines and watch as one crime after another after another was being committed with impunity by "the Powers That Be." So, after hearing Dan interviewed on several talk radio shows, I decided to call him and ask for his help in starting up a local PANDA group in Kodiak (People Against the NDAA). At around the same time, I read Rosa Koire's book, "Agenda 21 Behind the Green Mask," and invited Rosa Koire to come and give a presentation in Kodiak.
Sometime in mid April of 2014, frustrated and ready to throw in the towel due to lack of support for our anti-NDAA resolution, I phoned Dan Johnson for advice and encouragement. He talked me into continuing, which I am very thankful for. Not too long after that phone call, it occurred to me that I could probably drum up more support by inviting Dan to Kodiak to give a presentation. Dan came to Kodiak for about a week in mid-May and gave three separate presentations. (As a side note: On Dan's second presentation at the local American Legion an extremely intoxicated man continuously yelled at Dan to "shut up punk." Dan handled it very well.)
In mid-August, the PANDA resolution failed before the city council by a vote of 3 to 4.
On August 29th, Rosa Koire gave her presentation. Dan's and Rosa's presentations drew audiences, and I developed an email list of over 150 local supporters.
The Crowd Shouted... "Give us Barabbas!" ... and People, The NWO Gave Him To You.
http://www.dominicanajournal.org/give-us-barabbas/
https://www.greatagain.gov
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http://www.activistpost.com/2015/07/wilderness-corridors-agenda-21-under.html
The people are catching on so it is time to change the name.
When it comes to people the government fears the most, those who live in rural areas must be somewhere near the top of the list. Not that there's anything wrong with this particular group of people. It's just that they're a demographic that the government often struggles to contend with.
They usually have the resources to take care of themselves, and often by necessity, which makes it difficult to corral this population. When you have no choice but to take care of yourself because government services are too far away, they don't have any good excuses for telling you what to do. They know that if they tried to micromanage your life, they would utterly fail (at least more than they do already).
Now, contrast that with urban dwellers. The population density of cities makes it easier for them to control that population. One cop in the countryside may be miles away from the nearest person, but a cop in the city has rapid access to thousands of people. They're never very far away. Simply put, the cost of exerting control over a population is much less in a city than it is in the countryside.
So it should go without saying that if the government could move those people out of the countryside and into the cities, they could rest easy knowing that everyone is firmly planted under their watchful eye, and away from their rural blindspot. Unfortunately, that may very well be what they have in store for those who live outside of the city.
They've also been planning this for a very long time.
An author for the thedailyherb.com recently stumbled upon a very interesting article written in 1998, for a local newspaper in Montana. It was written in part, to expose a plan made by the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks, to try and relocate rural populations into the cities.
In the article, Libby County Commissioner, Rita Windom, informs us that she and other commissioners were approached by Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks (FWP) state land manager, Darlene Edge, with a proposal to cooperate in driving rural residents out of the Montana countryside into cities. When commissioners responded with horror, Windom says Edge replied.
"Can't you see we are doing you a favor by forcing people to move from rural areas into the urban areas. That way you can close roads…Why don't you work with us and move these people out of the rural areas and into the urban areas so cities can shoulder more of the responsibilities and the county can save money?"
This exchange took place in a meeting regarding a document called The Wildlife Program Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), of which only 300 were published. According to Windom, there was very little public input because the few public meetings held were so poorly advertised.
As you can see, that when dealing with lower ranking government officials, they like to conceal these plans under the guise of saving money. However, when they try to sell it to the people, it's always about environmentalism. The author makes a pretty good case that these measures were connected to Agenda 21; the UN plan to depopulate the rural areas of America, and move those people to the cities.
However, they don't call it Agenda 21 anymore. That term has been thoroughly demonized by so called "conspiracy theorists" and caries a lot of baggage. No, the government's plan to relocate rural residents will be conducted under another name.
Policies leading to rural cleansing are found in the document, Agenda 21: the Earth Summit Strategy to Save Our Planet, but another important source is associated with one of the other documents introduced at Rio. That was the Convention on Biological Diversity. It has been shown that the Wildlands Project is the central mechanism by which the Convention on Biological Diversity is to be implemented. The Wildlands Project calls for humans to be removed from one-half of the American land mass, and to create uninhabited corridors for wildlife to move freely from Alaska to Yellowstone Park, or farther south. It was written by radical environmentalists working in United Nations nongovernmental organizations with the full knowledge and aid of U.S. federal agencies such as U.S. Forest Service, BLM, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, EPA and others.
It appears that the Wildlands Project is now being implemented, under another name, in Idaho and the West through the Western Governors Association's Wildlife Corridors Initiative (WCI).
But, in truth, it will probably be implemented under many names. The author only speaks for Montana and Idaho, but the scope of this agenda includes the entire United States. Different regions will likely have different labels for it. So if you live in a rural area, pay attention to some of policies that are being carried out by local government agencies. You should be especially suspicious of anything that is done in the name of environmentalism. They're not all bad of course, but sometimes, preserving the environment and saving money is just a cover for pushing folks off their land.
Property Rights Under Attack In Re-zoning Land Grab (Wildlands Project)
Joshua Krause was born and raised in the Bay Area. He is a writer and researcher focused on principles of self-sufficiency and liberty at Ready Nutrition, where this article first appeared. You can follow Joshua's work at our Facebook page or on his personal Twitter. Joshua's website is Strange Danger
This article may be re-posted in full with attribution.
I'M A DEPLORABLE KNUCKLEHEAD THAT SUPPORTS PRESIDENT TRUMP. MAY GOD BLESS HIM AND KEEP HIM SAFE.
Jackson Holly
It's the TV, stupid!
… Agenda 21, kickin' into OVERDRIVE:
Is Seattle doing away with
single-family homes?
BY KIPP ROBERTSON, MyNorthwest.com | July 7, 2015
If adopted, ideas being considered by a Seattle housing committee would be devastating to the city's appeal, KIRO Radio's Dori Monson said.
Get rid of single-family zoning in Seattle. That's the big message in a draft report being worked on by Mayor Ed Murray's housing committee, obtained by The Seattle Times.
According to a draft letter, the city needs to move away from the idea that all families can live in their own home on a piece of land, the Times reports.
"Today, as Seattle expands rapidly and experiences massive economic and population growth, we are held back by policies and historical precedents that are no longer viable for the long-term survival or our city," the draft letter from committee co-chairs Faith Pettis and David Werthheimer states.
The draft letter says that single-family zoning has "roots in racial and class exclusion. The zoning remains "among the largest obstacles to realizing the city's goals for equity and affordability," the Times reports.
"So owning your own home, on your own lot, is a blow against equity, according to this draft report," Dori said.
Some of the challenges the city faces includes almost two-thirds of the urban land being restricted to single-family homes, the letter continues. The letter considers increasing density almost everywhere in the city, the Times reports.
With a 19-3 vote, the committee recommends replacing single-family zoning with zoning that would allow for more multi-unit buildings, according to the Times.
That means developers are going to buy up homes and turn them into duplexes and apartments, if the draft is approved, Dori said.
The draft is a working copy, which was seen by the committee last week, the Times reports. Pettis told the Times that parts of it were revised.
The draft recommendation is an example of the problem with the city, Dori said.
"This city is becoming unrecognizable," Dori continued. "This is a blow against tradition."
~> CONTINUE w/AUDIO/VIDEO: http://mynorthwest.com/76/2782087/Report-Committee-considers-eliminating-singlefamily-zoning-in-Seattle
St. Augustine: -The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it.
Let it loose; it will defend itself.-
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Well, one reason this will work is that many of the youth---below 40--cannot afford to buy homes. Here in Montana a couple making $8 to $12 each per hour cannot afford to buy a home. We have been Californianized. People are coming in from California and forcing up prices so the young are screwed. It's the rich vs the poor and the boomers vs the young.
Agenda 21: We're Being Conquered By Banks, Not Tanks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDbGHxrlOd0
Jul 27, 2015 The Alex Jones Channel
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All part of the Nefilim's plan to herd us together like cattle then eliminate us...
World Banker Says Second Species Controls Earth
http://www.secretsofthefed.com/disclosure-world-banker-says-second-species-controls-earth/
RULE BY CONSENSUS... NOT HOMO CAPENSIS !!!
TahoeBlue
Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole ; He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. - Job 5


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UN Migration Director General Calls for Continuity, Full Participation in EU Relocation Programme
Refugee and Asylum Issues, Resettlement
Brussels – On its final registration day (26/09), IOM, the UN Migration Agency counts nearly 30,000 asylum seekers that the organization has assisted through the European Union's emergency relocation scheme. Set up two years ago to relocate over 106,000 asylum seekers from the two frontline EU Member States – Greece and Italy – EU member and associated states will have until the end of December 2017 to carry out the remaining registered relocations.
Reflecting on the achievements and shortcomings of the programme, UN Migration Agency Director General William Lacy Swing praised the scheme and its potential to relieve pressure on frontline states, to help thousands of stranded asylum seekers, and to demonstrate the fundamental values that define the EU. He urged the EU and its Member States to continue the relocation programme in uninterrupted, improved form.
Given the current departure numbers, and provided that states keep up their pledges and commitment to the scheme, IOM is ready to relocate another 5,000–7,500 people up to the end of December 2017. It will continue to implement pre-departure health assessment, orientation and travel assistance.
To date, Germany (8,479), France (4,474), The Netherlands (2,442), Sweden (2,276) and Finland (1,975) have welcomed the highest number of relocated asylum seekers. Malta along with Norway and Liechtenstein (two of the non-EU countries, including Switzerland, which opted in to the programme) have fulfilled their commitments. Finland and Ireland are close to reaching their commitments. Hungary and Poland have not participated despite their legal obligation, while Austria and the Czech Republic have received less than 1 per cent of their quota.
"I am concerned that only 14 member states and associated countries have welcomed unaccompanied children. They are particularly vulnerable and should have been prioritized throughout the programme," said Director General Swing. Finland (109) and the Netherlands (90) are leading the way in accepting the most unaccompanied children.
The top three relocated nationalities are Syrians, Eritreans and Iraqis. One third of relocated asylum seekers are children and over half (62 per cent) are male.
"The EU must now move beyond this emergency measure towards a sustainable, mandatory future relocation system that unites EU Member States in solidarity and shows that the EU acts effectively together. The impressive acceleration of the scheme this year shows that the mechanism works, that we can rely on this, but improvements and adjustments are needed in the coming months and years and we cannot afford a gap," said Director General Swing.
"I am concerned that any gap between the current relocation programme and the fairness mechanism foreseen under Dublin IV would undermine beneficiaries' trust in the programme and add further stress in Italy and Greece as migrant arrivals continue. IOM believes that the common rules agreed on in the current scheme should be maintained to avoid disruption and fragmentation. After two years, substantial capacity, know-how and structures that were put in place have contributed to the current improved efficiency and coordination of the process among many stakeholders," continued Director General Swing.
Remarking on several practical and policy lessons that can be drawn and applied towards improving the system, Director General Swing stated, "First and foremost, the lack of full solidarity and responsibility sharing among EU states weakened the credibility and trust that beneficiaries and the public have had in the relocation system. Full participation would strengthen the scheme for everyone involved."
Secondly, he continued, "more flexible eligibility criteria would have allowed other vulnerable categories to be included. Foremost are vulnerable Afghan asylum seekers, most of whom are children, unaccompanied children and families with children; many have been exploited during their journey."
Thirdly, Director General Swing noted that improved matching of beneficiaries with member states of relocation much earlier in the procedure would have reduced secondary movements, which weaken the scheme. Family networks should have been better maintained, especially for separated children who found themselves relocated to member states without family.
"Finally, centralized systems would have enabled faster implementation, while more attention and resources for the crucial pre-departure orientation component would have helped to better manage expectations, improve early integration potential and thereby reduce secondary movements," he said.
Director General Swing concluded, "I am convinced that the number of arrivals we have been seeing over the past few years is manageable for a unified Europe acting in solidarity with front-line states. Swifter implementation of the EU relocation scheme and the realization of a balanced Common European Asylum System are key."
For updated statistics on EU relocations, please see: http://migration.iom.int/europe
More information on relocations from Greece can be found here: https://greece.iom.int/en/eu-relocation-programme
Jo De Backer at the IOM Regional Office in Brussels, Tel: +32 2 287 71 15, Email: jdebacker@iom.int
Ryan Schroeder at the IOM Regional Office in Brussels, Tel: +32 2 287 71 16, Email: rschroeder@iom.int
Besim Ajeti at IOM Greece, Tel: +30 210 9919040 Ext. 121, Email: bajeti@iom.int
Flavio Di Giacomo at IOM Italy, Tel: +39 347 089 8996, Email: fdigiacomo@iom.int
Roula's family relocated from Greece to Portugal. Photo: IOM 2017
Mohammad and Maya's family relocated from Greece to Norway. Photo: IOM 2017
Fatima's family relocated from Greece to Finland. Photo: IOM 2017
IOM staff escorts EU Relocation beneficiaries to Athens International Airport. File photo: IOM 2016
Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, European Commissioner for Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship, Dmitris Avramopoulos, and (former) European Parliament President, Martin Schultz, with relocation beneficiaries at the inception of the first EU Relocation mission from Greece to Luxembourg in November 2015. File photo: IOM 2015
Asylum seekers eligible for EU Relocation at a pre-departure orientation session at IOM in Athens. Photo: IOM 2017
Taha's story: Relocating from Greece to Finland. Watch here
Joude's story: Relocating from Greece to France. Watch here
Taha's story: Relocating from Greece to Finland
"I left Syria because of the war. I was alone, without my family, so I applied for a relocation, and Finland welcomed me to come."
Taha is a 16-year-old Syrian who was relocated by IOM from Greece to Finland through the EU Relocation scheme. Because he was alone in Greece, he applied for the programme and became one of the 109 unaccompanied children who relocated to Finland.
Taha's education was interrupted several times due to the war and on leaving Turkey for Greece, so back in school in Finland, he is eager to complete his studies. He wants to become a building engineer like his father.
"The Finnish people, when you first come here you think that they do not like refugees. But then when you talk to them, you see they are good people," says Taha in this short video about his experience and reception in Finland.
"The difficulty here is the rules because they have many rules," he smiles.
"You have to follow them because once you turn 18, you'll be on your own and have to know what to do."
Joude's story: Relocating from Greece to France
"We didn't choose to become asylum seekers. We are looking for peace. Now we can rebuild our lives."
Joude Jassouma is a Syrian who was relocated by IOM with his wife and 7-month-old daughter from Greece to Rennes, France through the EU Relocation scheme.
"Before, I had a negative perception of … the reception in France. We had seen images of Calais during our stay in Athens in March 2015 and this worried us because of Islamophobic attacks," says Joude in this short video.
"However, our arrivals in Martiné-Ferchaud was very heart-warming to me because the mayor said a sentence in Arabic. He said, 'Welcome to Martiné-Ferchaud. I am the town Mayor.'
Hearing this touched me deeply. I told my wife, 'Now we can rebuild our lives.'"
After six months in Rennes, Joude wrote a book about his journey and relocation experience to help others like him with their integration process. He is resuming his Ph.D studies to become a professor at the university.
"I would like my daughter to live in peace, unlike us who experienced war and difficulty," he says.

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Beza (Theodore De Beze)
one of the most eminent of the Reformers, the friend and coadjutor of Calvin, was born at Vezelai, in the Nivernais, June 24,1519. He passed the first years of his life with his uncle, Nicholas de Beza, counsellor in the Parliament of Paris, who sent him, before he was ten years old, to study at Orleans, where his preceptor was Melchior Wolmar, a convert to Protestantism. Beza accompanied Wolmar to the University of Bourges, and remained, in the whole, for seven years under his tuition. During this time he became an excellent scholar, and he afterward acknowledged a deeper obligation to his tutor for having "imbued him with the knowledge of true piety, drawn from the limpid fountain of the Word of God." In 1535 Wolmar returned to Germany, and Beza repaired to Orleans to study law; but his attention was chiefly directed to the classics and the composition of verses. His verses, published in 1548, under the title. Juvenilia, were chiefly written during this period of his life, and their indecency caused him many a bitter pang in after life. Beza obtained his degree as licentiate of civil law in 1539, upon which he went to Paris, where he spent nine years. He was young, handsome, and of ample means; for, though not in the priesthood, he enjoyed the proceeds of two good benefices, amounting, he says, to 700 golden crowns a year. The death of a brother added to his income, and an uncle, who was abbot of Froidmond, expressed an intention of resigning that preferment, valued at 15,000 livres yearly, in his favor. Thus, in a city like Paris, he was exposed to strong temptation, and his conduct has incurred great censure. That his life was grossly immoral he denies; but he formed a private marriage with a woman of birth, he says, inferior to his own. He was to marry her publicly as soon as the obstacles should be removed, and, in the mean time, not to take orders, a thing entirely inconsistent with taking a wife. Meanwhile his relatives pressed him to enter into the Church; his wife and his conscience bade him avow his marriage and his real belief; his inclination bade him conceal both and stick to the rich benefices which he enjoyed; and in this divided state of mind he remained till illness brought him to a better temper. On his recovery he fled to Geneva, at the end of October, 1548, and there publicly solemnized his marriage and avowed his faith. After a short residence at Geneva, and subsequently at Tubingen, Beza was appointed Greek professor at Lausanne. During his residence there he took every opportunity of going to Geneva to hear Calvin, at whose suggestion he undertook to complete Marot's translation of the Psalms into French verse. Marot had translated 50, so that 100 Psalms remained: these were first printed in France, with the royal license, in 1561. Beza, at this time, employed his pen in support of the right of punishing heresy by the civil power. His treatise De Haereticis a Civili Magistratu puniendis is a defense of the execution of Servetus at Geneva in 1553. Beza was not singular in maintaining this doctrine; the principal churches of Switzerland, and even Melancthon, concurred in justifying by their authority that act which has been so fruitful of reproach against the party by whom it was perpetrated. His work De Jure Magistratuum, published at a much later time in his life (about 1572), presents a curious contrast to the work De Haereticis, etc. In this later work he asserted the principles of civil and religious liberty, and the rights of conscience; but, though he may be considered as before most men of his age in the boldness of his opinions as to the nature of civil authority, his views of the sovereign power are confused and contradictory. During his residence at Lausanne, Beza published several controversial treatises, which his biographer, Antoine la Faye, confesses to be written with a freer pen than was consistent with the gravity of the subject. To this part of Beza's life belongs the translation of the N.T. into Latin, completed in 1556, and printed at Paris by R. Stephens in 1557. It contains the commentary of Camerarius, as well as a copious body of notes by the translator himself. For this edition he used a manuscript of the four Gospels, which in 1581 he gave to the University of Cambridge. It is generally known as Beza's Codex, and a facsimile edition of it was published in 1793. After ten years' residence at Lausanne, Beza removed to Geneva in 1559, and entered into holy orders. At Calvin's request he was appointed to assist in giving lectures in theology; and when the University of Geneva was founded he was appointed rector upon Calvin declining that office. At the request of some leading nobles among the French Protestants, he undertook a journey to Nerac in hope of winning the King of Navarre to Protestantism. His pleading was successful, and he remained at Nerac until the beginning of 1561, and, at the King of Navarre's request, attended the Conference of Poissy, opened in August of that year, in the hope of effecting a reconciliation between the Catholic and Protestant churches of France. Beza was the chief speaker on behalf of the French churches. He managed his cause with temper and ability, and made a favorable impression on both Catherine of Medicis and Cardinal Lorraine, who said, "I could well have wished either that this man had been dumb or that we had been deaf." Catharine requested him to remain in France on the plea that his presence would tend to maintain tranquillity, and that his native country had the best title to his services. He consented, and after the promulgation of the edict of January, 1562, often preached publicly in the suburbs of Paris. He soon after greatly distinguished himself at the Conference of St. Germains, where the queen-mother summoned a number of Romanist and Protestant divines to discuss the subject of images. In a memorial to the queen, he discussed the question with a force and vigor never surpassed. "In reply to the customary argument that honor is not directed to the image, but to that which the image represents, Beza triumphantly inquired (and the inquiry has never yet been answered) why then is any local superiority admitted? Why is one image considered more holy and more potent than another? Why are pilgrimages made to distant images, when there are others, perhaps of far better workmanship, near at hand? Again, is it tolerable that in a Christian Church an image of the Virgin Mary should be addressed in terms appropriate solely to the Almighty Father, 'omnibus es omnia!' If the Virgin were yet alive and on earth, how would the humility and lowliness of heart, which she ever so conspicuously evinced, be shocked by the hourly impious appeals to her supposed maternal authority over her blessed Son: 'Roga Patrem, jube Natum!' 'Jure Matris impera!' Then, adverting to the reputed miracles performed by images, he contended that, by the evidence of judicial inquiries, most of them had been indisputably proved impostures; and even with regard to such as remained undetected, it was detracting honor from God, the sole author of miracles, to attribute any hidden virtue or mystic efficacy to wood or stone. Passing on to a review of the long controversy about images maintained in the Greek Church, he concluded by affirming that not less idolatry might be occasioned by crucifixes than by images themselves. The propositions appended to this document were that images should be altogether abolished; or, if that measure were thought too sweeping, that the king would consent to the removal of all representations of the Trinity or its separate Personages; of all images which were indecorous, as for the most part were those of the Virgin; of such as were profane, as those of beasts and many others, produced by the fantastic humors of artists; of all publicly exhibited in the streets, or so placed at altars that they might receive superstitious veneration; that no offerings or pilgrimages should be made to them; and finally, that crucifixes also should be removed, so that the only representation of the passion of our Lord might be that lively portrait engraved on our hearts by the word of Holy Scripture.
"Beza had converted the king of Navarre so far as to make him a partisan of Calvinism; but the royal convert remained as profligate when a Calvinist as he had been when he professed Romanism, and the court soon found means to bring him back once more to the established church. His hostility to Beza was shown at an audience Beza had with the queen-mother, when deputed by the Huguenot ministers to lay their complaint before her with reference to the violations which had occurred of the edict of January, to which allusion has been made before. The king of Navarre, sternly regarding Beza, accused the Huguenots of now attending worship with arms. Beza replied that arms, when borne by men of discretion, were the surest guarantee of peace; and that, since the transactions at Vassy (where a fracas had taken place between the retainers of the duke of Guise and a Huguenot congregation, the duke's people being the aggressors), their adoption had become necessary till the Church should receive surer protection-a protection which he humbly requested, in the name of those brethren who had hitherto placed so great dependence on his majesty. The cardinal of Ferrara here interrupted him by some incorrect representation of the tumult at St. Medard, but he was silenced by Beza, who spoke of those occurrences as an eye-witness, and then reverted to the menacing advance of the duke of Guise upon Paris. The king of Navarre declared with warmth that whoever should touch the little finger of 'his brother,' the duke of Guise, might as well presume to touch the whole of his own body. Beza replied with gentleness, but with dignity; he implored the king of Navarre to listen patiently, reminded him of their long intercourse, and of the special invitation from his majesty in consequence of which he had returned to France in the hope of assisting in its pacification. ' Sire,' he concluded in memorable words, 'it belongs, in truth, to the church of God, in the name of which I address you, to suffer blows, not to strike them. But at the same time let it be your pleasure to remember that THE CHURCH IS AN ANVIL WHICH HAS WORN OUT MANY A HAMMER.' Well would it have been if Beza and his partisans had always remembered this, and, instead of taking up arms to defend their cause, had maintained it like the primitive Christians by patient suffering. Perhaps they would then have led to the gradual reformation of the Church of France, whereas now they took the sword, and perished by the sword. Each party armed. With the leaders of the Protestants Beza acted, and he was kept by the prince of Conde near his person; but the leaders, for the most part, abstained from encouraging the cruelties of their followers, although they excited the people to rise up in arms against the government. Beza continued with the insurgents, following the prince of Conde in all his marches, cheering him by his letters when in prison, and reanimating the Huguenots in their defeats, until his career as a herald of war was terminated by the battle of Dreux. At that battle, fought on the 19th of December, 1562, in which the Huguenots were defeated, Beza was present; but he did not engage in the battle, he was merely at hand to advise his friends.
⇒Bible concordance for BEZAI.
'In the following February the duke of Guise, the lieutenant general of the kingdom, was assassinated before Orleans. When the assassin was seized, he accused Beza, among other leading Huguenots, as having been privy to his design. Beza declared that, notwithstanding the great and general indignation aroused against the duke of Guise on account of the massacre at Vassy, he had never entertained an opinion that he should be proceeded against otherwise than by the methods of ordinary justice. He admitted that since the duke had commenced the war, he had exhorted the Protestants, both by letters and sermons, to use their arms, but he had at the same time inculcated the utmost possible moderation, and had instructed them to seek peace above all things next to the honor of God." After the peace of 1563, Beza returned to Geneva, and in 1564, upon the death of Calvin, was called to succeed to all his offices. Beza did not return to France till 1568, when he repaired to Vezelai on some family business. He visited his native country again to attend and preside over a Huguenot synod which assembled at La Rochelle in 1571. Never had any Huguenot ecclesiastical meeting been attended by so many distinguished personages as graced this synod. "There were present," says the report of its acts, "Joane, by the grace of God, queen of Navarre; the high and mighty prince Henry, prince of Navarre; the high and mighty prince Henry de Bourbon, prince of Conde; the most illustrious prince Louis, count of Nassau; Sir Gaspar, count de Coligni; the admiral of France, and divers other lords and gentlemen, besides the deputies who were members of the Church of God." At this assembly the Huguenot confession of faith was confirmed, and two copies of it were taken, one of which was deposited at Rochelle, the other in the archives of Geneva. After the execrable massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve, Beza honorably exerted himself to support those of the French whom the fear of death drove from their native land; he interested in their behalf the princes of Germany. He also founded a French hospital at Geneva.
In 1572 he assisted at an assembly of the Huguenots at Nismes, where he opposed John Morel, who desired to introduce a new discipline. The prince of Conde caused him to come to him at Strasburg in the year 1574, to send him to prince John Casimir, administrator of the palatinate. In 1586 he was employed in the conference of Montbeliard against John Andreas, a divine of Tubingen. He died at the age of eighty-six, October 13th, 1605. Among his numerous works may be specified—
1. Confessio Christianme fidei (1560): —
2. Histoire Ecclesiastique des Eglises Reformees du royaume de France, from 1521 to 1563 (1580, 3 vols. 8vo): —
3. Icones virorum illustrium (1580, 4to): —
4. Tractatio de repudiis et divortiis, accedit iractatus de polygamia (Geneva, 1590, 8vo): —
5. Novum D. N. Jesu Christi Testamentum (often reprinted): —
6. Annotationes ad Novum Testamentum (best edition that of Cambridge, 1642, fol.).
Beza was a man of extraordinary quickness and fertility of intellect, as well as of profound and varied learning. His life has been often written, e.g. by Bolzec (Paris, 1577); Taillepied (Paris, 1577); Zeigenbein (Hamb. 1789); Schlosser (Heidelb. 1809); the latest and most elaborate is Theodor Beza nach handschriftlichen und anderen gleichzeitigen Quellen, by Professor Baum, of Strasburg (1843-1851, 2 vols.), but it only extends to 1563. See also Haag, La France Protestante, 2, 259-284. Perhaps no one of the reformers has been more foully and constantly calumniated by the Romanists than Beza.
Beza took a lively interest in the affairs of the Church of England, and his letters were (and still are) very unpalatable to the High-Church party there. Dr. Hook quotes largely from his letters to Bullinger and "Grindal to prove that Beza "regarded the Church of England in Elizabeth's time as Popish." In his letter to Grindal, dated June 27, 1566, he complains that he has heard of "divers ministers discharged their parishes by the queen, the bishops consenting, because they refused to subscribe to certain new rites; and that the sum of the queen's commands were, to admit again not only those garments, the signs of Baal's priests in popery, but also certain rites, which also were degenerated into the worst superstitions — as the signing with the cross, kneeling in the communion, and such like; and, which was still worse, that women should baptize, and that the queen should have a power of superintending other rites, and that all power should be given to the bishop alone in ordering the matters of the Church; and no power, not so much as that of complaining, to remain to the pastor of each church; that the queen's majesty, and many of the learned and religious bishops, had promised far better things; and that a great many of those matters were, at least as it seemed to him, feigned by some evil-meaning men, and wrested some other way; but withal he beseeched the bishop that they two might confer a little together concerning these things. He knew, as he went on, there was a twofold opinion concerning the restoration of the Church: first, of some who thought nothing ought to be added to the apostolical simplicity; and so that, without exception, whatsoever the apostles did ought to be done by us; and whatsoever the Church that succeeded the apostles added to the first rites were to be abolished at once; that, on the other side, there were some who wire of opinion that certain ancient rites besides ought to be retained, partly as profitable and necessary, partly, if not necessary, yet to be tolerated for concord sake; that he himself was of opinion with the former sort; and, in fine, that he had not yet learned by what right (whether one looks into God's Word or the ancient canons) either the civil magistrate of himself might super-induce any new rites upon the churches already constituted, or abrogate ancient ones; or that it was lawful for bishops to appoint any new thing without the judgment and will of their presbytery." — Eng. Cyc.; Bib. Sac. 1850, p. 501; Cunningham, Reformers, Essay 7 (Edinb. 1862, 8vo); Hook, Eccles. Biog. 2, 384 sq.
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Q: How are date and datetime supposed to be serialized SOAP (xml) messages We are working on a building a java client with a third party SOAP Webservice, that is I have not access or control off server side code.  We are just provided with the WSDL description file of the service.  We are using Axis 1 (version 1.4 ).
We have run into following issue related to date vs datetime serialization and deserialization.  The said wsdl defines two types DateTime and DateRange
<xs:element minOccurs="0" name="DateTime" type="xs:dateTime"/>
<xs:element minOccurs="0" name="DateRange">
  <xs:complexType>
    <xs:sequence>
      <xs:element name="Start" type="xs:date"/>
      <xs:element name="End" type="xs:date"/>
    </xs:sequence>
  </xs:complexType>
</xs:element>

Where xs prefix denotes XML Schema, that is following is present
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"

The axis wsdl2java generates Java Objects whre datetime field is type to Calendar, and start, end fields are typed to java.util.Date
When serialization happens the start and end fields are serialized to yyyy-mm-dd format , for example 2014-02-01
But when the actual call is made to server side we recieve following response
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
   <SOAP-ENV:Header/>
   <SOAP-ENV:Body>
      <SOAP-ENV:Fault>
         <faultcode>SOAP-ENV:Server</faultcode>
         <faultstring xml:lang="en">JiBX unmarshalling exception; nested exception is org.jibx.runtime.JiBXException: Missing 'T' separator in dateTime</faultstring>
      </SOAP-ENV:Fault>
   </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

We used SOAP UI to build the request xml payload directly and observed if we pass just the date portion in start and end fields we get exact same response, while if we pass those two fields with time portion like a dateTime field it works, gives no fault message.
This when taken together with what I could gleam from XMLSchema documentation for
 xs:date  and xs:dateTime , in particular lexical and canonical representation section, seems to imply that

*

*Axis based serialization of start and end field to just yyyy-mm-dd and ignoring the time portion is correct.  And client side code generated conforms to WSDL provided to us.

*Server side code does not conform to WSDL provided to us, it expects a dateTime field rather than a date field.

*Since date and dateTime  field are required to be serialized in different formats by the schema definition.  The result it failure at server side when it attempts to de-serialize
the message
To validate our hypothesis 1. we used Python's ZSI library to generate python stub and resulting xml from it.
Even that serializes start and end in yyyy-mm-dd format , with an additional 'Z' at the end.
This again fails to get deserialized at server side, even though this serialization format conforms to xs:date as defined by XML Schema
<ns1:Start>2014-02-05Z</ns1:Start>

Can somebody confirm if hypothesis formed by us, based on observed behaviour, documentation and experiment with Python's ZSI is correct.  Or if we are missing some detail

A: Hm, you reason about your DateRange fields start and end, but the message is clearly about your DateTime field which requires (as XML schema says) a T-separator between date portion and time portion, not a space or any other char.
Please check how you serialize your DateTime field (not the start or end fields!). It must be in format "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss".

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About the Der Blaue Reiter Artist Group
Wassily Kandinsky, Der Blaue Reiter, 1903
What is Der Blaue Reiter?
"Art today is moving in directions of which our forebears had no inkling," wrote Franz Marc in 1912. "The Horsemen of the Apocalypse are heard galloping through the air; artistic excitement can be felt all over Europe – new artists are signaling to one another from all sides; a glance, a touch of the hand, is enough to convey understanding." The previous year, Marc joined with Wassily Kandinsky and a number of other German and Russian émigré artists to form Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider): a group with diverse aesthetic approaches – variously inspired by Post-Impressionism, early Cubism, the art of medieval Europe and folk art of the world – but with a united belief in the spiritual power of color.
Franz Marc, Die grossen blauen Pferde (The Large Blue Horses), 1911
The first roilings of the Great War in 1914 foretold the end of the group after only three years, but its influence would reverberate across the generations.
Franz Marc, Blue Horse I, 1911
What Are the Stylistic Characteristics of Der Blaue Reiter?
The catalogue of the first Der Blaue Reiter exhibition in 1911 set forth the group's ecumenical aim to "propagate…not one precise and special form, but…in the variety of the forms represented to show how the inner wish of the artists expresses itself." Franz Marc's work is recognizable for it frequent portrayal of animals – especially horses – fractured into cubist-like planes and rendered in vibrant primary colors. Kandinsky's paintings from this period are more improvisational, featuring large expanses of color freed from the constraint of lines. Meanwhile, Albert Bloch, the only American artist associated with Der Blaue Reiter, painted ethereal human figures wafting through fructuous landscapes, and August Macke interpreted architecture and streetscapes with Orphist and Fauvist inflections.
Artists from Der Blaue Reiter. From left to right: Maria Marc, Franz Marc, Bernhard Koehler, Wassily Kandinsky, Heinrich Campendonk, Wassily Kandinsky, Thomas de Hartmann. Munich, 1911(Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images) Heritage Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images
A Reunion: Die Blaue Vier
In 1923, Kandinsky, Feininger, Klee and von Jawlensky regrouped to form Die Blaue Vier (The Blue Four), and would exhibit and lecture together in the United States and Mexico over the ensuing decade. Die Blaue Vier was the brainchild of painter and dealer Galka Scheyer, who was born into a Jewish family in Germany and settled in California in the 1920s. Her industrious promotion of Die Blaue Vier – which included lending paintings to Hollywood movie sets – did much to broaden the influence of European modernism in North America, with John Cage, Diego Rivera, Walter Conrad Arensberg, Edward Weston and Frank Lloyd Wright among those who became conversant with this rich body of work through Scheyer.
What is the Legacy of Der Blaue Reiter?
"I am sure of one thing," wrote Marc to Kandinsky in 1911. "Many…young people full of energy will…be fired by enthusiasm for [Der Blaue Reiter Almanach] and will judge the world in accordance with it." Indeed, despite the group's short tenure, the group and its singular journal had a profound influence on subsequent generations of artists. Among those 20th-century painters who acknowledged a debt to Der Blaue Reiter included the Hungarian Béla Kádár, the American Marsden Hartley, the Austrian Oskar Kokoschka, and the Swiss Johannes Itten. More broadly, Der Blaue Reiter was in the vanguard of the movement towards expressionism and abstraction, leading the way for Gorky, Pollock, Basquiat and their proliferation of artistic heirs today.
Wassily Kandinsky, ZUM THEMA JÜNGSTES GERICHT (ON THE THEME OF THE LAST JUDGEMENT), 1913. Lot Sold $22,879,000, November 2018.
The work of Der Blaue Reiter can be seen in countless major museums worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf and the Albertina in Vienna. Also worthy of note is the August-Macke-Haus in Bonn and the Franz Marc Museum in Kochel am See, both of which feature permanent holdings from the artists' estates as well as temporary exhibitions.
Timeline & History
Timeline & History of Der Blaue Reiter
Signet of the Neue Künstlervereinigung München
The Neue Künstlervereinigung München (Munich New Artist's Association) is founded by Wasily Kandinsky and others
Wassily Kandinsky circa 1913
Kandinsky pens his seminal treatise "On the Spiritual in Art" which promoted abstract art and in particular the non-denotative use of color as a practice capable of metaphysical revelation
Wassily Kandinsky, The Last Judgment, 1912
Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc lead the formation of a new group, Der Blaue Reiter, after Kandinsky's painting The Last Judgement is rejected from an exhibition; the group's first show is held at the Moderne Galerie Tannhäuser
Wassily Kandinsky, cover of Der Blaue Reiter almanac, circa 1912
Der Blaue Reiter Almanach is published by Piper, Munich; edited by Kandinsky and Marc, it contains reproductions of 140 artworks plus essays by Arnold Schoenberg, Auguste Macke, and others
Herwarth Walden, German expressionist artist and art expert, photographed in 1910
The artists of Der Blaue Reiter participate in an exhibition in Berlin organized by Herwarth Walden and his gallery Der Sturm
German troops mobilize for World War I, 1 August 1914 (Credit: German Federal Archive (Deutsches Bundesarchiv) as part of a cooperation project)
The outbreak of the Great War forces Kandinsky and several other Russian émigrés to leave Germany; August Macke is killed in action in Champagne that September
Paul Klee, Death for the Idea, 1915
Distressed by Macke's death, Paul Klee, who had been loosely affiliated with the Blaue Reiter group from late 1911, creates his iconic lithograph Der Tod für die Idee (Death for the Idea)
Franz Marc, 1910
Franz Marc is killed in action in Braquis
Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc are regarded to be the leaders of the group, with August Macke, Alexej von Jawlensky, Marianne von Werefkin, Gabriele Münter, Lyonel Feininger and Albert Bloch also being key figures, and Paul Klee serving as an important but independent affiliate. The group's first exhibition also featured paintings by Henri Rousseau and Robert Delaunay, and the Almanach reproduced work by Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh, folk art from Africa and the South Pacific, medieval German graphics and drawings by children.
Der Blaue Reiter Artists
Type: artist
Category: Artist
Alexej von Jawlensky
Der Blaue Reiter at Auction
Der Wasserfall (Frauen unter einem Wasserfall) The Waterfall (Women under a Waterfall)
7 November 2007 | Sale price: 20,201,000 USD
Estimate: 20,000,000 – 30,000,000 USD
Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
7 November 2007 | 7:00 PM EST | New York
Bild mit weissen Linien (Painting with White Lines)
21 June 2017 | Sale price: 33,008,750 GBP
21 June 2017 | 7:00 PM BST | London
Zum Thema Jüngstes Gericht (On the Theme of the Last Judgement)
12 November 2018 | Sale price: 22,879,000 USD
12 November 2018 | 7:00 PM EST | New York
ZWEI GROSSE PFERDE IN LANDSCHAFT (TWO LARGE HORSES IN A LANDSCAPE)
FRAUEN IM PARK (MIT WEISSEM SCHIRM) (WOMEN IN A PARK - WITH A WHITE PARASOL)
22 June 2010 | Sale price: 1,945,250 GBP
5 May 2010 | Sale price: 2,210,500 USD
5 May 2010 | 7:00 PM EDT | New York
OBERSTDORF (GEBIRGE) (OBERSTDORF - MOUNTAINS)
5 February 2013 | Sale price: 1,665,250 GBP
Estimate: 800,000 – 1,200,000 GBP
5 February 2013 | 7:00 PM GMT | London
Marianne von Werefkin
IM THEATER I (IN THE THEATRE I)
6 February 2008 | Sale price: 72,500 GBP
Impressionist and Modern Works on Paper
6 February 2008 | 10:00 AM GMT | London
Albert Bloch
Duell (Duel)
12 November 2018 | Sale price: 1,095,000 USD
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Rooney To Stage Free Show in Fayetteville
By Brian Washburn
It is a wonder Rooney is even still a band. After hitting it big with their debut album in 2003 (with major hits "Blueside" and "I'm Shakin'" landing them on TV shows and radio), the band suffered label troubles. They were forced to record their sophomore album three times before the label finally released it, which proved to be a bit of a letdown compared to the debut self-titled release.
Though many bands would have closed up shop after such problems, Rooney has kept going strong and is releasing a new album this summer on its own terms.
The band — vocalist and guitarist Robert Schwartzman, guitarist and vocalist Taylor Locke, drummer Ned Brower and keyboardist Louie Stephens — have spent more than a decade in the music industry and know the ups and downs quite well. Though a major label contract helped boost the band to almost arena stardom, it also proved to be the band's downfall.
"(Being on a major label) definitely helped us at the beginning, but it crippled us later. It ran its course for us and we needed to move on," Locke said in a recent phone interview.
What the band has moved on to is its own imprint label that will be releasing the forthcoming album "Eureka" this summer. The band wrote, recorded and produced the album on its own.
With Rooney running the show, the band found a new level of freedom. Musically the group can go to the psychedelic and unusual places it was never able to go before while still maintaining the pop-rock sensibilities that put Rooney on the map in the first place. However, it has definitely not been easy for the band to make these transitions. After 11 years of playing together, the band found it harder than expected to stay together during this label-led turmoil.
"It was incredibly hard to stay a band. We are lucky and glad we did and made a stronger tale of survival," Locke said. "The more labels interfere, the worse it gets and makes people miserable. We are very glad to be outside the system."
But not every member survived this "nightmare," as Locke described it.
After playing with the band throughout its existence, original bassist Matt Winter left. While this did not impact the recording of the band's third full-length studio album, it will definitely affect their plans to tour this spring and summer and when the band stops through the University of Arkansas campus on Monday for a free show at the Greek Theater.
"We're considering playing these college shows with Robert on bass and test driving this quartet operation," Locke said. "I think this will be awesome, but we're not sure yet. We rehearsed and polish and going to give an exciting live show. It's just a brand new scene for us. We're not sure if this is for the long haul when we hit the road this summer, but for these shows Robert is going to be on bass and I'm the only guitar player."
Rooney will hit the nation with a new look, new dynamic, but with the same catchy, hook-laden pop sound that Rooney fans are used to.
"This is a rebirth: Rooney chapter two. It's our 11th year as a band. It's kind of a new approach self-releasing, self-financing the new record. It's different but still the same," Locke said.
Brian Washburn is the founder of DBW and is currently working on a way to revolutionize the music industry.
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You may notice that the number of pages or the layout in the Adobe PDF file you got after converting or finalizing the document differs from the original Microsoft Word Document.
There is a difference in page numbers, but the content of the files is the same!
Microsoft Word tries to represent the result on screen you will get if you print on the printer that is currently selected. So after opening the document it uses the default Windows printer settings including print quality settings. If you change the printer settings word adjusts the layout to correspond to the new printer driver.
The conversion server might be configured to use a different (default-) printer driver than the client and so after converting the document to Adobe PDF the layout and the number of pages might have changed.
You have to use the same printer quality settings, default printer settings on every Fabasoft Conversion server to get consistent conversion results.


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B.C. has been actively defending provincial waterways from zebra mussels since 2015. (Dave Britton/USFWS)
B.C. bound barge with 'largest ever' zebra mussel contamination intercepted by conservation
Thousands of mussels were removed from the vessel over a two-day period
Cole Schisler
Jul. 7, 2022 3:36 p.m.
The B.C. Conservation Officer Service successfully intercepted an Ontario barge covered in invasive Zebra mussels before it set sail in B.C. waters.
In a news release, the province said it was the largest invasive mussel decontamination ever conducted in B.C.
"This was the largest, most significant discovery of zebra mussels on a watercraft our teams had ever experienced. To decontaminate the vessel, we required a specialized operational plan and space due to the sheer size," said Insp. Dave Webster. "I am proud of how quickly our teams mobilized to stop invasive mussels from reaching B.C. waters. This is a testament to the success of the Invasive Mussel Defence Program and its co-ordinated approach with our neighbouring provinces to tackle the threat of this invasive species."
READ MORE: Boat infested with invasive mussels stopped at B.C. border
After receiving a tip about the barge, investigators were able to track down the trucking company and the massive barge, which was being transported in two 40-foot-long sections, each 10 feet high and 10 feet wide. The barge had travelled from Lake Ontario and was destined for industrial use in a Lower Mainland waterway.
The barge was redirected to a Richmond warehouse for a full decontamination. The decontamination required specialized equipment to remove thousands of invasive mussels during approximately 10 hours of work in two days. Many of the mussels were viable, which means they could multiply in B.C. waters if given the chance. That has yet to happen in the province.
The decontaminated barge was issued a mandatory 30-day quarantine period, which ended this week.
B.C. enacted the invasive mussel defence program in 2015 to prevent zebra and quagga mussels from becoming established in the province. In 2013, the economic impacts of invasive mussels to hydropower, agricultural irrigation, municipal water supplies and recreational boating were estimated to be $43 million per year if introduced into B.C.
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As social media networks have popped up, grown, and become part of our social structure, I have noticed a trend in creative industries that has me pulling my hair out a little. I know of people and brands that have decided to toss aside having their own website for the free and convenient platforms available on social media. I know of a record company that told a band, "Nah, you don't need a website, just use a Facebook page." Um, no. A resounding NO.
Why? Why should creative types, or small business bootstrappers still maintain a website when their audiences' eyeballs are on socials and those platforms are free?
You own absolutely NOTHING on your social media networks. Zip. Zilch. Nada.
If Facebook were to go offline tomorrow or decide that none of your fans could even see your page without you paying, how would you let people know what you're up to or what you're selling? When you tweet, you are hoping and strategizing that your followers will happen to catch your tidbit of info. When you Instagram, you are hoping your followers think your picture is cool or pretty enough to like, and maybe even follow a link.
Social media networks will become more and more of our daily lives and be the only medium besides actual word of mouth that people use to make decisions about how to spend their money and who to give their attention. The mistake brands make is in thinking they have any right to, or own anything about their social media profiles.
In the spring of 2014, Facebook made a huge algorithm change that sent waves of hate and discontent through the marketing world. After years and years of providing a free platform for brands to acquire, interact, and sell to their customers, Facebook had decided it was time to collect. Businesses were aghast. "But they are MY fans!" Um, no, they're not. They are Facebook users that have entered into an agreement with Facebook, not you.
The only parts of your business that are yours are your website, logo, tagline, graphics (if these are trademarked), proprietary goods, and your email list. These are the building blocks of every sale and relationship you will have. If you look at the fine print on any of these social networks, you might find that by agreeing to their terms of service you are giving them the right to use your logo and content. It wouldn't surprise me in the least. Most brands choose to give up some level of autonomy in order to play the social media game, whether they know it or not.
A social media strategy is essential for brands at this point, but it is a layer that cannot stand on its own.
Email marketing has fallen into, then out of, then back into favor. In the days of AOL email, people were excited to get email - it was novel and new. Then, as inboxes filled up with "Buy Now!" and "Special Offer!" emails, people became overwhelmed and irritated with every marketer out trying to get clicks. Now the pendulum has swung back - sort of. Social media networks are so inundated with information and algorithms, businesses have realized email is one of the only ways to actually make sure (or close to sure) that your customer sees you.
The difference is now email marketing needs to be more strategic, less pushy, and above all offer tons and tons of value.
Your social media strategy should aim towards providing engaging and valuable content first (not selling), and then funneling your fans and followers to your website and email list to find out more.
In other words, social media is the cocktail hour, your website is the main course, and your email newsletter/campaign is dessert.
Here's how it should go, to use what I know best - how a band should be using social media.
- An Instagram picture is posted of one of the band members getting ready to go out on the road. The post verbiage is authentic and heartfelt about what going on the road is like and what the fans mean to them. There are no "Buy tickets here!" or "Download the latest album now!" messages at all. The link in the profile is a trackable link that goes directly to their tour dates.
- After purchase, they receive a thank you email with a coupon or offer for merch to get ready for the show, and a form to leave their social handles for a possible shoutout from the band on Twitter.
- They buy a t-shirt and follow the band on Twitter.
- A band member tweets a 10-second clip of them personally thanking that fan and saying they'll see them at the show. They just made that fan's day and a customer for life! They can't do this for every ticket purchaser, but even once every day or two would put some serious bucks in the brand equity bank.
Did you imagine this whole interaction and how it all flows seamlessly and authentically? Of course, not every site visitor is going to buy a ticket - but that's the goal, so your socials should serve to send people to where you can best serve them and build that relationship. Social network posts should serve fans who want to know more and them feeling an emotional connection - they don't want to feel they're being sold to by a used car salesman.
Having a clear, easy to navigate, and updated website is essential to building that customer relationship. It should be setup in a way that effortlessly guides them through your sales funnel to not only provide them with incredible value, but give them a reason to allow you into their inbox.
There are endless tidbits to check and tweak in a website - from making sure links aren't broken to remembering to update information, to checking for consistent styling (fonts, colors, etc.). It's a project usually best left to a professional so you can use your creative brainpower for offerings.
There are so many options out there to build or update your website - from DIY to completely custom and intricate.
I've chosen Squarespace as the best choice for not only my own site - but it's the only platform I use to build semi-custom websites for clients. It is truly the best balance of design, cost, functionality, and ease that I have found.
I'm going to wrap this up because I can talk all day about social media strategy, but that's not the point of this particular blog. The point is that no social media network is yours and your own website and email list are worth so, so much more. While we can safely bet social media is not going away, the platforms and apps are changing constantly. Don't put the entirety of your brand resources and efforts into the free (not yours) basket, or sooner or later you will find yourself empty-handed.


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Copied and pasted from a post of a friend on facebook. I can't imagine the hours it musta taken to create this thing!
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Holly cow! Words escape me. How I would love to have been able to watch these created.
would still get the same response.


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Good Ghostwriters Are Possessed
By Andrew Neiderman
There is a growing phenomenon in the publishing industry: continuing the works of dead authors, but for me it's not very new. I've been writing V.C. Andrews for over 30 years now and continue with books scheduled for publication into and beyond 2019. Recently, the producer I work with in Hollywood, Dan Angel of Everywhere Studios and I, after years and years of pounding the beat, saw five earlier V.C. Andrews novels produced and aired on Lifetime with a sixth now in the works. Please remember. This is a book franchise in its 37th year, consistently published with two or three titles every year since the publication of Flowers in the Attic.
How did this happen and how is it continuing?
When I first began to publish as Andrew Neiderman, I had quick success thanks to my agent at the time, Anita Diamant, who happened to be V.C. Andrews' agent. Because my early successes such as PIN, adapted into feature film, and other titles like BRAINCHILD, TENDER LOVING CARE, PERFECT LITTLE ANGELS, had young people as their main characters and I was writing darker thrillers(I have published 45 of them), Anita recognized the possibility of my completing a V.C. Andrews novel when Virginia was in the last stages of her fatal illness. For over twenty-five years since then, every title was a top five New York Times best seller in mass market.
When I began, I was chairman of the English department at Fallsburg High School in upstate New York. I had published many novels while teaching, but I had always been a student of style, creating a creative writing course for seniors. I decided to study Virginia Andrews' work as if I were doing a graduate level paper on the author. Early on in my college career, I enjoyed writing like famous authors and to my shock when I wrote my first paper in freshman composition in the style of William Faulkner, I received a D. Style, visual, metaphor, etc. has no place in cold, workaday prose.
But it sure had a place writing V.C. Andrews. I quickly discovered she had put her mark on her own phraseology, character development, setting description, and most important, plot development. She was once quoted as saying she was interested in why people who are meant to love each other hurt each other so. That opened a vast world of character study and plot drivers.
At times, I felt as if she was there looking over my shoulder shaking her head at something too obviously a mimicking of her or too off the beaten path she had created. I have always been proud of the fact that readers accepted what I wrote and supported it for year, decades, in fact. With all the new attention and producers discovering V.C. Andrews titles, the books have gone over 107 million copies in over 100 countries, including the recent acquisitions by Mainland China
I have spoken about the books to salesman gathered in London, keynoted writers' conventions, and met with agents everywhere, including the Czech Republic and Hungary. At times this has proven to be interesting. Once, when Anita and I were having coffee with our South Korean publisher and two editors, I noticed the female editor staring at me continually. When I asked the one editor who spoke English why she was staring, he replied, "Because she can't believe you're a woman."
What I learned traveling is simply people love a good story with real characters that delve into feelings and fears they harbor as well.
While doing all this I had a number of my novels adapted into films, the biggest being The Devil's Advocate. At one time I used to write V.C. Andrews on one computer and Andrew Neiderman on another. It sounds silly but it helped enforce the authenticity of V.C. Andrews and therefore, I can truly say, I was, have been and remain possessed.
Needless to say, I'm very happy to be among ghosts and hope to keep this one alive for some time to come. We are excited about the reception to the newest series, The Mirror Sisters with its published sequel, Broken Glass. Shattered Mirrors the third and final book in this series is out this coming fall.
And we are all excited about the development of my stage play of Flowers in the Attic with Broadway producers, Martian Entertainment with an eye toward a New York opening in 2018.
It was a big responsibility to carry this forward and we are all appreciative of the great efforts and support Gallery Books and publisher Louise Burke has provided.
Andrew Neiderman is available for a most interesting discussion of this publishing phenomenon.
Contact Andrew Neiderman at Neid26@gmail.com …. He can also be reached via Al Zuckerman at Writers House Agency, 212-685-6550
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(Leakey, TX) — This Sunday, Joseph Kopser will meet voters in Real County for a TX-21 town hall. Kopser, a 20-year Army Veteran, tech entrepreneur, and candidate for Congress in TX-21, will sit down with Hill Country residents to answer their questions and learn more about their concerns.
Kopser was an early signer of the Town Hall Project's pledge, and has committed himself to holding a minimum of four town halls per year if elected. During the General Election, Kopser has previously held town halls in Kendall, Kerr, Gillespie, Blanco, Bandera, and Comal Counties. Kopser will spend the early afternoon at a town hall in Austin before traveling to Leakey. Ahead of Sunday's event, Kopser released the following statement.
"Voters across this district are sick and tired of politics as usual. They're hungry for real representation, and searching for the candidates and elected officials who will be accessible and accountable to their constituents. That's what our campaign is offering, and why our TX-21 town hall tour is taking us back to counties like Real that have too often been overlooked by Washington.
Kopser's campaign has repeatedly asked Roy for open, accessible debates in all ten counties of TX-21, through public statements and social media. Roy is once again invited to join Kopser at this or any other town hall the campaign hosts. Details for Sunday's event are below.
The town hall will be open to press and is providing another opportunity for Real County voters to meet with Kopser after the previous Leakey town hall was postponed due to severe flooding. Please contact Madison at madison@kopserforcongress.com with questions or to RSVP.
Joseph Kopser is a 20-year Army veteran, technology entrepreneur, husband and father of three daughters, and Democratic nominee for Congress in TX-21. His candidacy is driven by concern for the future of our country and the path Washington leadership is taking. He is building a new coalition of voters who believe the values, priorities, and expectations of Texas' 21st congressional district will serve as a model of service and representation for Texas and the United States.


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Lars Weibel (* 20. Mai 1974 in Lachen SZ) ist ein ehemaliger Schweizer Eishockeytorwart und jetziger -funktionär.

Karriere
Lars Weibel begann seine Karriere 1989 beim SC Rapperswil-Jona. Es folgte 1992 der Wechsel zum EHC Biel. Ein Jahr später unterschrieb der Torhüter beim HC Lugano, wo er bis 2001 blieb. Der Schweizer wurde zwar von den Chicago Blackhawks im NHL Entry Draft 1994 ausgewählt, wurde jedoch nie von einem NHL-Klub unter Vertrag genommen.

Mit dem HC Lugano wurde Weibel 1999 Schweizer Meister. Ab der Saison 2000/01 spielte er für den HC Davos, wo der Torwart ebenfalls zu den Leistungsträgern gehörte. In den Jahren 2000 und 2001 gewann er mit dem HC Davos den prestigeträchtigen Spengler Cup. Zudem wurde Lars Weibel 2000 und 2002 jeweils in das All-Star-Team des Turniers gewählt. Ab der Saison 2004/05 spielte er beim EV Zug. 2009 verließ der Schweizer den Verein und unterschrieb als Nachfolger des am 21. Mai 2009 verstorbenen Robert Müller einen Vertrag für die Saison 2009/10 bei den Kölner Haien aus der Deutschen Eishockey Liga. Im August 2010 beendete Weibel seine aktive Laufbahn.

Er ist regelmässig Studiogast bei SRF zwei während der NLA-Playoffs. Weibel, ein ausgebildeter Hochbauzeichner mit Handelsdiplom, war bis 2014 in der Privatwirtschaft tätig, trat dann beim EV Zug eine Stelle in der Verkaufs- und Marketingabteilung des EV Zug an und übernahm im selben Verein 2016 die Leitung der Nachwuchsakademie, ehe er mit Beginn August 2019 beim Schweizer Eishockeyverband als Direktor für die Nationalmannschaften tätig wurde.

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Für die Schweizer Eishockeynationalmannschaft bestritt Weibel 44 Partien.

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Q: How I can put data in the html? I will create a website in that website admin upload some audio files in the server everything is work perfect but I was uploaded a PHP file in that file I will fetch all the data (Name of file and URL of that file) from the database but I don't know how I can put that data into my HTML code. In HTML when the user clicks the name then URL should load and play music.
<?php
 define('DB_HOST','localhost');
 define('DB_USERNAME','Root');
 define('DB_PASSWORD','');
 define('DB_NAME','audiofiles');

 //connecting to the db
 $con = mysqli_connect(DB_HOST,DB_USERNAME,DB_PASSWORD,DB_NAME) or
 die("Unable to connect");

 //sql query
 $sql = "SELECT * FROM audio";

//getting result on execution the sql query
$result = mysqli_query($con,$sql);

//response array
$response = array();

$response['audio'] = array();

//traversing through all the rows

 while($row =mysqli_fetch_array($result)){
 $temp = array();
 $temp['id'] = $row['id'];
 $temp['name'] = $row['name'];
 $temp['url'] = $row['url'];
 array_push($response['audio'],$temp);
 }

This is my PHP of fetching audio files from the database. I want some help to display that audio file in the HTML page and also play that files. I want to do that PHP file should grab that name and link of the audio file which will work perfectly now I want HTML to embed name and the link as the src.

A: Just use <audio> HTML tag inside while() loop like below:-
while($row =mysqli_fetch_array($result)){?>
    <?php echo $row['name'];?> : <audio controls><source src="<?php echo $row['url'];?>"></audio>

<?php }?>

So full code needs to be:-
<?php
 define('DB_HOST','localhost');
 define('DB_USERNAME','Root');
 define('DB_PASSWORD','');
 define('DB_NAME','audiofiles');

 //connecting to the db
 $con = mysqli_connect(DB_HOST,DB_USERNAME,DB_PASSWORD,DB_NAME) or
 die("Unable to connect");

 //sql query
 $sql = "SELECT * FROM audio";

//getting result on execution the sql query
$result = mysqli_query($con,$sql);

//traversing through all the rows

while($row =mysqli_fetch_array($result)){?>
    <?php echo $row['name'];?> : <audio controls><source src="<?php echo $row['url'];?>"></audio>

<?php }?>


I don't like yard work. While I enjoy the great outdoors, I'm more a naturalist when it comes to the world at large. Sure I love gardens and manicured lawns with flowers and benches and all of that. But it's a real labor of love. And I only have room for a few of those, time permitting and all. And taking care of the lawn is not one of them.
It's not that I have a large yard. My my back yard is landscaped and is decked so there is no working around grass or anything like that. Racking and bagging. That's easy manual kinda stuff. But for the front of my home and the sides, I do need a mower. Not much of one but I need one. And this is the year that my 13 year old Briggs and Straton 6.5HP mower engine decided to give up the ghost and become more money to fix and maintain that is to repair.
Sure I could spend the time and efforts to replace, poke, prod and cajole it into life but it wouldn't be any easier for my son to start, my wife to push or for me to lend to my neighbor every so often when his does pulls the same sputtering smokescreen producing yaws on a Saturday morning like it did today.
So I bit the bullet. I've been dying to go green on this. I've already converted my other tools to Electric engines so why not my lawnmower.
Introducing my new, mean green, Greenworks 25142. It's the 16″ 10A unit with bag and mulch capabilities. It's easy to push, easy to start and despite complaints about dancing around the cord when mowing, it's going to be a thing of beauty when I get a call from my son that he finally was able to maneuver better around trees and stepping stones.
Green so that the neighbors know that you have gone eco-friendly, 16″ mower to help you get around things, mulches and bags, quick start and quiet. And when you don't serve kale at your next BBQ you can still grant yourself earth friendly bona fidas because this beast gave it to you.
And 150′ cord reel just in case you needed one.


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What We Need to Hear After the Election
ericfolkerthThoughts from Purple Land (Politics)Leave a comment
Just dropped my daughter off at school. And there I took a brief peek at the election underway. The front sidewalk has sprouted dozens of signs for local candidates. There were even a few workers out for the two statehouse candidates from our district.
The school is clearly braced for a huge turnout. They moved voting to the gym this year, and seem to have doubled the number of voting machines and volunteers. The PTA is having a bake sale (we contributed banana bread) and there are even volunteers helping people navigate the parking lots. But, thus far, turnout seems to be fairly LIGHT. At least, that's what my pollworker friend told me just now…and it seemed to be the truth from my observation. Perhaps with the increased number of machines and manpower, it just seems smoother? Time will tell…
This election been the longest and most expensive presidential campaign in history. Today, the voters are speaking. Tonight, barring the reappearance of the "hanging chad" or equivalent spoiler, we should have a result.
Whether your favorite candidate wins or loses, it seems to me there are words we all should expect from the mouths of both candidates.
Below, I take my best shot at presidential speechwriting, and suggest some things we Americans most need to hear.
First, let me start with an assumption: George W. Bush failed to say what we most needed to hear in the year 2000, and that failure led to an increasingly polarized electorate and nation. You can't put all of the difficulties of this administration on that one failure. But, to my mind, it set a horrible path with completely predictable results.
George W. Bush campaigned to be a "uniter, not a divider." Many people, including me, truly believed that this was the way he would govern, because this was the way he had governed in Texas.
For myriad reasons, he did not. One good reason was the hotly contested, and seriously contentious, election itself. More than 50 percent of the nation did not vote for him. Many of those persons, to this day, refuse to believe that he won. (I am noting the fact, not editorializing)
Given that climate, we needed him to be the president he promised he would be. We needed a "uniter." I personally believe his own advisors –specifically Rove and Cheney– steered him away from that path, and convinced him it was unnecessary to go that direction. He apparently agreed.
That mistake, IMHO, was the single biggest mistake of his presidency. Because it pitted 50.5 percent of the electorate against him from the start.
"But Eric," you say, "surely you're not suggesting that all Democrats would have fallen in line behind him!"
Not all, to be sure. But some would have, and probably enough to allow for an impressive "bipartisan" ruling coalition for most of his first term, specially if Bush had taken their advice and counsel as seriously as he always took the advice of those closest to him.
I believe the American people are always looking for a leader who will represent them ALL, no matter which direction they personally "lean." But that "first step," the first indication that it will happen, has to come from the president…not from the people, or even the political opposition. And, BTW, had Bush been able to do it? Had he listened consistently to voices from the other side –found his own "Bob Bullock"– on the national stage? His whole presidency might have been different. (Emphasis on "might.")
It is a step of great political courage, to lead from the center, and to welcome in the opposition. It sets our government apart from so many others. We fight like hell during campaigns, and then we should (but don't always) put aside those differences, learn from each other, and move forward as one nation.
It strikes me that BOTH the candidates this year are uniquely qualified to do this. McCain calls himself a "Maverick" (btw, did you know the actual Mavericks are not too keen on this?) which I take to mean that he would be willing to stand up to his own party, and reach across the aisle to the other one. Obama's political writings, campaign, and political career, indicate that he also values making this move.
So, with the strong belief that it's necessary, and that either of these two guys could theoretically do it, here is what I think should be said after the election.
The loser should say:
"I congratulate Senator (Blank) on a hard fought campaign. We did not always see eye-to-eye, nor do we now. But for the good of the nation, I call upon all of my supporters to acknowledge and support Senator (Blank) and their administration. The stakes for our nation's future are too high to allow the petty rhetoric of a political campaign to infuse our national discourse. I pledge to support a President (Blank) administration, and I ask all of my supporters to do the same."
The winner should say:
"I congratulate Senator (Blank) on a hard fought campaign. We did not always see eye-to-eye, nor do we now. To all of those who opposed my candidacy, I promise you have nothing to fear. I pledge to be YOUR president too. I pledge to work hard to win your trust and support, and I ask you to work with me. I take seriously the idea that we are ONE nation, and I pledge to do all in my power to not pursue policy in a way that will intentionally drive us apart. The stakes for our nation are too hight to allow the petty rhetoric of a political campaign to infuse our national discourse. I will endeavor to work with and for you, and I ask you do work with and for my administration, so that we might truly be ONE nation."
Can either of them pull off a speech of such political courage?
I don't know for sure. But I know that more than most candidates, they have the personalities for it.
And I know, beyond a shadow of doubt, that it's what we most need to hear from them.


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The Liberal government is planning to table an emergency spending bill Tuesday that would grant the federal cabinet sweeping new powers to tax and spend without parliamentary approval until Dec. 31, 2021.
A handful of MPs will be in Ottawa to debate the bill, which includes sections aimed at adopting some of the fiscal measures announced last week by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau.
But the bill goes well beyond those measures and includes provisions that give the minority government the power to act unilaterally for months.
The Globe and Mail has reviewed a copy of the draft bill.
One section of the bill grants cabinet the power to change taxation levels through regulation, rather than through legislation approved by Parliament. It states that cabinet will have this power during the period before 2022.
For greater certainty, a regulation made under this section may contain provisions that have the effect of repealing or imposing a tax, decreasing or increasing a rate or an amount of tax or otherwise changing the incidence of tax, the bill states.
The bill contains similar language and timelines regarding government borrowing.
Government officials shared a draft copy of the bill with some opposition MPs Monday under embargo until the legislation is tabled in the House of Commons.
In an interview with The Globe and Mail, Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux said the new powers are unprecedented."
The draft legislation would provide powers that go well beyond the initial response to COVID-19 announced last week," said Mr. Giroux, after reviewing a draft version. It seeks to circumvent Parliament, for both spending and tax, by granting extraordinary powers to cabinet and individual ministers."
Pierre-Olivier Herbert, a spokesperson for Mr. Morneau, declined to comment on the contents of the bill because it has not yet been made public.
I cannot comment on the content of a bill before it is introduced in the House, he said in a statement. All parties are working together to ensure that Canadians can get rapid access to the financial support they need.
-More to come
Elijah Daniel said he started 'Cult for Good' when he realized LA wasn't extending support to its homeless population during the coronavirus pandemic.
Gasoline prices in the wholesale and futures markets crashed on Monday, a harbinger of much lower prices for consumers at the pump.


Are you pregnant with twins? Even having one baby is one of the most exciting time of your life as a parent. It only gets more exciting when you find out you'll be having twins. It is a scary thought and a demanding task to be raising and caring for two different individuals at the same time. And it can get overwhelming having twins. Here are practical tips on how you can care for your twins while keeping your sanity.
Have the basics ready such as the car seats, strollers for two and bassinets. It would also be a good idea to stock up on your diapers if you plan to use disposables or if you plan to use cloth diapers, complete your stash enough for two babies to use. Expect to do a lot of diaper changes in the first few months.
It is ok to accept baby clothes donations or buy second hand baby items especially when having twins. Your expenses will be far greater when having twins, so conserve your money. Check with your friends or other family members for they may have pre-loved baby items like mittens, onesies, booties or frog suits. You can even get things such as reusable cloth diapers from family or friends to save some money there. Babies grow up fast anyway so these infant clothes will be outgrow in no time.
Do not be afraid (or hesitant) to ask for help and accept if someone offers to help. Your name is not Superwoman and you don't have to do everything. Pregnant with twins? Having twins can be difficult and it's ok to ask from people around you to help you in little things like folding the laundry or washing the dishes.
Consider hiring someone for help if you can afford it. Chances are, you will put household chores somewhere in the middle or the bottom of your list and that's fine. It's right that you prioritize your babies' needs. Hiring help who can clean your house for you will take that load off tremendously.
If you're pregnant with twins, you need to decide if you will breastfeed both babies full time. If you plan to breastfeed your twins, get the support you need. Breastfeeding multiples is possible but you need to have the right people around you. Get a lactation consultant to help you get started and do not be afraid to ask the consultant to visit you at home so she could check on the babies' latch and position. Lactation consultants are there to teach you the right techniques and will continue to motivate you so you will have a successful breastfeeding journey. When having twins, it is helpful to join a support group for breastfeeding multiples can very helpful.
Aside from joining a support group for breastfeeding, you may want to check your local community if there are support groups for parents having twins or multiples. It always feels good and reassuring to be with parents who are experiencing the same situation as you. There you get to share the challenges you face and get practical advice. And once you are a little more experienced, you could help others. If you can't find any support group nearby and you're pregnant with twins, consider joining an online twins forum instead.
Keep the communication line with your spouse or partner open. Having a baby, more so if you're having twins, can create an enormous strain on your relationship. This is a huge life-changing event so it is important that you keep on communicating. The endless diaper changing and feeding combined with heightened stress level primarily caused by lack of sleep can make even the small things blow up into proportions. Talk to your partner about how you feel and how both of you could share the responsibilities in terms of caring for the babies and the other stuff at home.
Try to stay calm. It is easy to lose your cool when you hear both babies cry at the same time and both of them need your attention. Take a deep breath and try to stay calm as much as possible.
Invest on a good stroller and look for one that fits your lifestyle and budget. You can either get one that is made especially for twins or borrow an umbrella stroller and get a baby carrier. It's up to you.
Try and get out of the house as often as you can. This may be a little challenging but a short walk, even just around the block, can be refreshing for you and the twins.
Take advantage of delivery services. There are many shops that offer delivery services for your groceries. The good thing about this is that you avoid impulse purchases and you are able to plan ahead. Not only that, this will also save you a trip to the grocery store and save you a lot of time.
Spend time with your spouse or partner. Both of you could get caught up with the responsibilities of raising two babies that you forget your relationship as a couple. Find a way to have a time with your partner even if it's just a dinner or a coffee date. If leaving the house is really not possible then share a cuddle or two when both the babies are asleep.
When you're pregnant with twins, you may need a break just from thinking about it. Once the twins arrive, don't forget to give yourself a well-deserved break. It can be as simple as an uninterrupted bath or a quick trip to the salon for a good haircut or a pedicure. Find the time for yourself to just relax for a while before you go back into that crazy routine at home.


When using the contingent worker OTL/PO functionality, the amount calculated in PA ($4704.77) is different from the amount calculated in PO ($4704.75). This results in an amount left in the procurement clearing account. This does not happen consistently and they do not know why it happens when it happens. They would like a fix to stop it from happening.
Manual journal entry but it is challenging for users to keep track of the incorrect amounts.
When a contingent Worker's Time Card had been approved in Oracle Time and Labor (OTL), the time card is interface to Project Costing module.
Notice that Service Procurement Clearing Account is recorded in Project Costing and PO Receiving . The total amount for the time card in Projects is 4,704.77 while the total amount received against the PO is 4,704.75. This leaves a 0.02 difference.